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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!newsfeed.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Linux vs. FreeBSD ... Date: 11 May 1996 11:19:04 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 30 Message-ID: <4n1t38$rjj@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <3188C1E2.45AE@onramp.net> <4mnsc5$6qo@sundial.sundial.net> <4mr1pk$cdi@dyson.iquest.net> <4n0dhd$cff@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E nickkral@america.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Nick Kralevich) wrote: > Yep, Linux is closed, which is why you see hundreds of people > actively hacking on the kernel, vs FreeBSD, which has much > fewer. You have to get the blessing of Your God for each part that should go into the kernel. This is different from FreeBSD, where we've got more than 50 people who can decide based on their own experience and knowledge about which change might go in unseen, which change should better be reviewed by somebody else, or what to better leave out. That's why Terry Lambert and John Dyson call the Linux development `closed'; they could never become active commiters for Linux' CVS tree (if something like this would even exist). > There has > been support for the BSD UFS to be added, but until someone finds a need > to run *BSD binaries, it's not likely to happen. The file system is transparent for the applications, so what the heck are you arguing here??? You can run Linux binaries on FreeBSD with either ext2fs or ufs, what's the concern of the application with it? -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)